Description

1999 Finest is a 300-card set (produced by Topps) released in two series of 150 cards each. The set includes the following subsets: Gems (101-120), Sensations (121-130) Rookies (131-150/277-299), Sterling (251-265) and Gamers (266-276). Card number 300 is a special Hank Aaron/Mark McGwire tribute. Cards numbered from 101 through 150 and 251 through 300 were short printed and seeded at a rate of one per hobby, one per retail and two per Home Team Advantage pack.

Parallels

All 300 cards are available in the following parallels.

Refractors

Gold Refractors (serial-numbered to 100 copies)

Inserts

Split Screen

This 14-card set features two players paired together on the same card and printed using a "split Refractor" technology. On half the cards, the player on the left is refracting and the player on the right is not; the opposite for the other half. There are no "plain vanilla" non-refracting cards.

In addition there is also a "full Refractor" parallel.

SS1 Mark McGwire / Sammy Sosa

SS2 Ken Griffey, Jr. / Alex Rodriguez

SS3 Nomar Garciaparra / Derek Jeter

SS4 Barry Bonds / Albert Belle

SS5 Cal Ripken, Jr. / Tony Gwynn

SS6 Manny Ramirez / Juan Gonzalez

SS7 Frank Thomas / Andres Galarraga

SS8 Scott Rolen / Chipper Jones

SS9 Ivan Rodriguez / Mike Piazza

SS10 Kerry Wood / Roger Clemens

SS11 Greg Maddux / Tom Glavine

SS12 Troy Glaus / Eric Chavez

SS13 Ben Grieve / Todd Helton

SS14 Travis Lee / Pat Burrell

Prominent Figures

This 50-card, Series One set features ten superstars in each of five statistical categories and printed with Refractor technology. Each card is serial-numbered to the single season record in that particular category. The categories are:

Home Runs (1:1749 packs, serial-numbered to 70)

Slugging Percentage (1:145, serial-numbered to 847)

Batting Average (1:289, serial-numbered to 424)

Runs Batted In (1:644, serial-numbered to 190)

Total Bases (1:268, serial-numbered to 457

PF1 Mark McGwire HR 70

PF2 Sammy Sosa HR 70

PF3 Ken Griffey, Jr. HR 70

PF4 Mike Piazza HR 70

PF5 Juan Gonzalez HR 70

PF6 Greg Vaughn HR 70

PF7 Alex Rodriguez HR 70

PF8 Manny Ramirez HR 70

PF9 Jeff Bagwell HR 70

PF10 Andres Galarraga HR 70

PF11 Mark McGwire SLG 847

PF12 Sammy Sosa SLG 847

PF13 Juan Gonzalez SLG 847

PF14 Ken Griffey, Jr. SLG 847

PF15 Barry Bonds SLG 847

PF16 Greg Vaughn SLG 847

PF17 Larry Walker SLG 847

PF18 Andres Galarraga SLG 847

PF19 Jeff Bagwell SLG 847

PF20 Albert Belle SLG 847

PF21 Tony Gwynn BAT 424

PF22 Mike Piazza BAT 424

PF23 Larry Walker BAT 424

PF24 Alex Rodriguez BAT 424

PF25 John Olerud BAT 424

PF26 Frank Thomas BAT 424

PF27 Bernie Williams BAT 424

PF28 Chipper Jones BAT 424

PF29 Jim Thome BAT 424

PF30 Barry Bonds BAT 424

PF31 Juan Gonzalez RBI 190

PF32 Sammy Sosa RBI 190

PF33 Mark McGwire RBI 190

PF34 Albert Belle RBI 190

PF35 Ken Griffey, Jr. RBI 190

PF36 Jeff Bagwell RBI 190

PF37 Chipper Jones RBI 190

PF38 Vinny Castilla RBI 190

PF39 Alex Rodriguez RBI 190

PF40 Andres Galarraga RBI 190

PF41 Sammy Sosa TB 457

PF42 Mark McGwire TB 457

PF43 Albert Belle TB 457

PF44 Ken Griffey, Jr. TB 457

PF45 Jeff Bagwell TB 457

PF46 Juan Gonzalez TB 457

PF47 Barry Bonds TB 457

PF48 Vladimir Guerrero TB 457

PF49 Larry Walker TB 457

PF50 Alex Rodriguez TB 457

Leading Indicators

Inserted into Series One packs, this 10-card set highlights the 1998 home run totals of superstar players and printed on cards using a heat-sensitive, thermal-ink technology. When a collector touched the baseball field background in left, center, or right field, the heat from his finger revealed the pictured player's '98 home run totals in that direction.

L1 Mark McGwire

L2 Sammy Sosa

L3 Ken Griffey, Jr.

L4 Greg Vaughn

L5 Albert Belle

L6 Juan Gonzalez

L7 Andres Galarraga

L8 Alex Rodriguez

L9 Barry Bonds

L10 Jeff Bagwell

Team Finest

The first 10 cards were distributed in first series packs and 11-20 in second series packs, and are available in the following parallels.

Blue (serial-numbered to 1500 copies)

Red (serial-numbered to 500)

Gold (serial-numbered to 250)

Blue Refractor (serial-numbered to 150)

Red Refractor (serial-numbered to 50)

Gold Refractor (serial-numbered to 25)

The Red, Red Refractor, Gold, and Gold Refractors are exclusive to Jumbo packs.

TF1 Greg Maddux

TF2 Mark McGwire

TF3 Sammy Sosa

TF4 Juan Gonzalez

TF5 Alex Rodriguez

TF6 Travis Lee

TF7 Roger Clemens

TF8 Darin Erstad

TF9 Todd Helton

TF10 Mike Piazza

TF11 Kerry Wood

TF12 Ken Griffey, Jr.

TF13 Frank Thomas

TF14 Jeff Bagwell

TF15 Nomar Garciaparra

TF16 Derek Jeter

TF17 Chipper Jones

TF18 Barry Bonds

TF19 Tony Gwynn

TF20 Ben Grieve

Peel and Reveal

All cards in this acetate set came covered with an opaque coating on both sides of the card that must be peeled off. Each card is available in the following parallels.

Sparkle (common)

Hyperplaid (uncommon)

Stadium Star (rare)

PR1 Kerry Wood

PR2 Mark McGwire

PR3 Sammy Sosa

PR4 Ken Griffey, Jr.

PR5 Nomar Garciaparra

PR6 Greg Maddux

PR7 Derek Jeter

PR8 Andres Galarraga

PR9 Alex Rodriguez

PR10 Frank Thomas

PR11 Roger Clemens

PR12 Juan Gonzalez

PR13 Ben Grieve

PR14 Jeff Bagwell

PR15 Todd Helton

PR16 Chipper Jones

PR17 Barry Bonds

PR18 Travis Lee

PR19 Vladimir Guerrero

PR20 Pat Burrell

Future's Finest

Each of these Series Two cards is serial-numbered to 500 copies.

FF1 Pat Burrell

FF2 Troy Glaus

FF3 Eric Chavez

FF4 Ryan Anderson

FF5 Ruben Mateo

FF6 Gabe Kapler

FF7 Alex Gonzalez

FF8 Michael Barrett

FF9 Adrian Beltre

FF10 Fernando Seguignol

Aaron Award Contenders

Randomly inserted into Series Two packs at different rates depending on the player, this nine-card set features players vying for the Hank Aaron Award. Card #HA1 is the toughest to pull and each card gets progressively easier to pull as you go down the checklist. These cards are also available as a Refractor, which is also structured the same as the regular inserts.

The specific odds of finding an Aaron Award Contenders card are as follows.

HA1 1:216 wax, 1:108 HTA

HA2 1:108 wax, 1:54 HTA

HA3 1:72 wax, 1:36 HTA

HA4 1:54 wax, 1:27 HTA

HA5 1:43 wax, 1:21 HTA

HA6 1:36 wax, 1:18 HTA

HA7 1:31 wax, 1:15 HTA

HA8 1:27 wax, 1:13 HTA

HA9 1:24 wax, 1:12 HTA

The specific odds of finding an Aaron Award Contenders Refractor are as follows.

HA1 1:1728 wax, 1:864 HTA

HA2 1:864 wax, 1:432 HTA

HA3 1:576 wax, 1:288 HTA

HA4 1:432 wax, 1:216 HTA

HA5 1:344 wax, 1:172 HTA

HA6 1:288 wax, 1:144 HTA

HA7 1:248 wax, 1:124 HTA

HA8 1:216 wax, 1:108 HTA

HA9 1:192 wax, 1:96 HTA

HA1 Juan Gonzalez

HA2 Vladimir Guerrero

HA3 Nomar Garciaparra

HA4 Albert Belle

HA5 Frank Thomas

HA6 Sammy Sosa

HA7 Alex Rodriguez

HA8 Ken Griffey, Jr.

HA9 Mark McGwire

Complements

This seven-card set features two players paired together on the same card and printed using a "split Refractor" technology. On half the cards, the player on the left is refracting and the player on the right is not; the opposite for the other half. There are no "plain vanilla" non-refracting cards.

In addition there is also a "full Refractor" parallel.

C1 Mike Piazza / Ivan Rodriguez

C2 Tony Gwynn / Wade Boggs

C3 Kerry Wood / Roger Clemens

C4 Juan Gonzalez / Sammy Sosa

C5 Derek Jeter / Nomar Garciaparra

C6 Mark McGwire / Frank Thomas

C7 Vladimir Guerrero / Andruw Jones

Double Feature

This seven-card set features two players paired together on the same card and printed using a "split Refractor" technology. On half the cards, the player on the left is refracting and the player on the right is not; the opposite for the other half. There are no "plain vanilla" non-refracting cards.

In addition there is also a "full Refractor" parallel.

DF1 Ken Griffey, Jr. / Alex Rodriguez

DF2 Chipper Jones / Andruw Jones

DF3 Darin Erstad / Mo Vaughn

DF4 Craig Biggio / Jeff Bagwell

DF5 Ben Grieve / Eric Chavez

DF6 Albert Belle / Cal Ripken, Jr.

DF7 Scott Rolen / Pat Burrell

Franchise Records

This ten-card set features all-time and single-season franchise statistic holders. Also available as a Refractor.

FR1 Frank Thomas

FR2 Ken Griffey, Jr.

FR3 Mark McGwire

FR4 Juan Gonzalez

FR5 Nomar Garciaparra

FR6 Mike Piazza

FR7 Cal Ripken, Jr.

FR8 Sammy Sosa

FR9 Barry Bonds

FR10 Tony Gwynn

Milestones

Similar to the Prominent Figures insert in Series One, this 40-card set features the players who have the highest statistics in four categories: Hits, Home Runs, RBI and Doubles. The cards are printed with Refractor technology and are serial-numbered based on the category as follows: Hits to 3000, Home Runs to 500, RBI to 1400, and Doubles to 500.